Alison Hopkins
Experienced BACP counsellor for complex life challenges
About Alison
Alison Hopkins helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also supports people facing intimacy-related issues, anger, and major life changes. Alison is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience working in the United Kingdom.
She speaks English and accepts international clients. Alison aims to make the first step easier. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about painful or confusing experiences.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters to the person in front of her, not on labels or hurry. Her approach combines listening with practical tools. She draws on client-centred work to follow each person’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioural ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new ways of coping. Trauma-focused methods help when past events still cause distress. Alison is comfortable discussing relationship patterns, attachment and intimacy, including topics such as commitment worries, communication problems, infidelity, and consensual BDSM and kink matters.
She also works with issues like abandonment, shame and guilt, hoarding, and isolation or loneliness. Sessions can explore grieving, first responder stresses, and how people recover after natural or human-caused disasters. People who are navigating separation or divorce can find a steadier way forward by looking at practical choices and emotional responses together.
Alison offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. She invites people to start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit their life.
What Alison works with
How Alison works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Alison uses client-centred work to place the person’s concerns at the heart of sessions. This approach involves open listening and reflecting back what matters to each person, which helps build clarity and direction. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and offers practical exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Alison will discuss options with each person and decide together what fits best based on goals, current challenges and personal preferences. She adapts methods over time so the work stays relevant to what the client needs in the moment.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections or people who find writing helps them organise thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work and family life and allow continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
